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# YouTube - Swedish Self-Cleaning Toilet Ad - Hilarious! [gizmodo]

# Michael Rose at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - Intel to ship 45nm Core 2 chips by end of year - down-sizing from the current 65nm chips, the "high-k gate dialectrics" in the new "Penryn" processors will result in faster, lower-power computers. The best die photo I found was in an image gallery at TG Daily: [tuaw]

# Oracle SQL Developer is a Java application that knows how to query and maintain an Oracle database. It feels pretty raw, but it works. Free. [google]

# Alwin Troost - Froq is "the tool 'For Rapid Oracle Querying'". It's a very polished query and maintenance tool for Oracle. Also Java, and requires that you install the Oracle JDBC driver, ojdbc14.jar, which is free. Froq costs €40, but you can use it in demo mode with a single window and some other restrictions. Found it on Apple's OS X Downloads area.

# The SQuirreL SQL Client is a free Java application that can query any database for which you have a JDBC driver. I used it a few years back for Progress, MySQL, and SQL Server databases. It has gotten quite a bit better, and even includes an OS X installer. Works fine against my Oracle database, with the ojdbc14.jar driver. This will be my tool of choice for the small amount of raw database query stuff I need to do (my code accesses the database through a proprietary Lisp object/relational mapping tool). If I needed this kind of thing more, I'd probably pay for Froq. Too bad that they didn't make the effort for a full-resolution 128x128 icon.

# I tried HandBrake last night. It took 40 minutes to rip a 2 hour movie from a DVD (that I own). The result was a 980 meg file. Played fine. Looked nearly as good as the DVD. And, unlike the DVD, QuickTime Player gave me random access to the whole thing with a simple drag of the marker. No special features, but, hey, I never watch those anyway.

# Reversecode.com - Display Eater is a screen recording application. You pick a folder name for the frame output, choose a part of the screen to record, and begin recording. When done, you click the "Stop Recording" button. Now you have a folder full of individual frames. To render it to a QuickTime movie, you select the folder, click "Settings" to control the output format and quality, click the "Save" button, choose a file name, and wait for the rendering. Worked well, though the default rendering format made for blurry screen images. Crashed when I tried to render more than one movie in a session, but didn't lose anything. As promised, it used both CPUs while rendering. [versiontracker]

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